Conceptual Masterpiece Movies & TV Shows You Must Watch

The Best Conceptual Movies & TV Shows? This is not an easy question to answer. Sometimes movie lovers may wonder if there is any masterpiece movie or TV show they haven’t watched or may have skipped unintentionally.

The Best Movies & TV Shows

We have sorted some of the most popular and cinematic masterpieces in a list for you to recognize if you have watched these films and TV shows and if you haven’t, you should.


Inception

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief with a remarkable opportunity to penetrate the dreams of people and to steal their secrets. His talent made him a hot commodity in the spyware community but cost him everything he loves. When Cobb proposes a nearly difficult mission, he has a hope at redemption: place his proposal in the head of another. It’s going to be the ideal crime if he succeeds, but a deadly adversary anticipates Cobb’s every move.

Year of Release: 2010

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy

Director: Christopher Nolan


The Dark Knight Rises

It’s been eight years since Batman (Christian Bale) disappeared into the darkness, in collusion with Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman). Batman lost everything for what he and Gordon thought would be the public good, taking blame for Harvey Dent’s murder. The arrival of a clever cat burglar (Anne Hathaway) and a merciless terrorist named Bane (Tom Hardy), however, drives Batman out of retirement and into a war that he may not be able to win.

Year of Release: 2012

Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Morgan Freeman

Director: Christopher Nolan


Interstellar

A major agricultural plague and a second Dust Bowl are increasingly making the earth uninhabitable in the Earth’s future. Professor Brand (Michael Caine), a genius NASA scientist, is working on proposals to rescue life by using a wormhole to transport the Earth’s inhabitants to a new home. But first, to explore which of the three planets may be the future home of mankind, Brand must send former NASA pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and a team of researchers across the wormhole and around the galaxy.

Year of Release: 2014

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Michael Caine

Director: Christopher Nolan


Fight Club

After his dream apartment is ruined, a lonely man (Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia encounters a mysterious soap salesman called Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and then finds himself living in his squalid home. Under strict guidelines, the two bored men form an underground club and battle other men who are fed up with their mundane lives. As Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group crasher, catches Tyler’s interest, their perfect relationship frays.

Year of Release: 1999

Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf Aday, Jared Leto

Director: David Fincher


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The Pursuit of Happyness

Life is a battle for Chris Gardner, a single parent (Will Smith). He and his young son (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith), evicted from their flat, find themselves alone with no place to go. Even though Chris ultimately landed a job at a prominent brokerage company as an intern, the work doesn’t pay much money. The couple must live in tents and experience countless challenges, but as he tries to build a healthier life for himself and his son, Chris refuses to give in to desperation.

Year of Release: 2006

Cast: Will Smith, Thandie Newton, Jaden Smith

Director: Gabriele Muccino


Black Swan

Black Swan

Nina is the ballerina whose dance obsession dominates every part of her life. Nina is a dance lover. When the artistic director of the company wishes to substitute his prima ballerina for its opening “Swan Lake,” performance, Nina is his first preference. But she is competing in Lily. Nina is suitable for the White Cycle, but Lily is the black Cycle. Nina’s dark side continues to surface as competition between the two dancers becomes a trickled bond.

Year of Release: 2010

Cast: Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder

Director: Darren Aronofsky


The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is being incarcerated for the murder of his wife and lover and sentenced to life imprisonment for two successive sentences. But only Andy understands that he has not committed the offences. During this time in 19 years, he forms a bond with Red (Morgan Freeman), encounters prison life’s cruelty, adapts, supports the guard, etc.

Year of Release: 1994

Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, James Whitmore

Director: Frank Darabont


Seven 1995

Seven

With the assistance of the recently transferred David Mills (Brad Pitt) in the case of detective William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), who retires officers, they will find some elaborate and intense killings. They know immediately that they are struggling with one of the seven deaths of a serial killer (Kevin Spacey). Somerset’s wife, Tracy (Gwyneth Paltrow) is also friends, who is embarked on a crime-ridden city and fearful of growing her babe.

Year of Release: 1995

Cast: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, John C. McGinley

Director: David Fincher


Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad (2008-2013)

SERIES | NETFLIX

Walter White, a good mannered specialist in high school chemistry, claims his life cannot get worse. His earnings are scarcely met, a condition that will not change until the delivery of his pregnant wife and their teenager struggles for cerebral paralysis. But when he discovers he has terminal cancer, Walter is stupid. Realizing that his disease will probably financially kill his family, Walter desperately strives to make the best of his time by converting an old RV into a meth factory on wheels..

Cast: Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte, Bob Odenkirk, Giancarlo Esposito, Jonathan Banks, Laura Fraser, Jesse Plemons

Number of Seasons: 5

Created By: Vince Gilligan


dark Series

Dark (2017-2020)

SERIES | NETFLIX

In a small German town when two children miss, the sinful past and the twin lives and the fragmented ties between four families who are looking for the children are revealed. The mystery-drama series offers a complicated puzzle with a network of curious characters, all of them linked to the tumultuous past of the city, whether they knew it or not. The story consists of supernatural elements which bind in 1986 to the same city. The first series created for Netflix in German is “Dark”.

Cast: See full cast here

Number of Seasons: 3

Created By: Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese


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Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan

Cap’n John Miller (Tom Hanks) brings his men to locate Private James Ryan behind enemy lines whose three brothers were murdered during the war. In pursuit of Ryan, each man embark on a personal quest, surrounded of the cruel reality of war and discover his own power to prevail with dignity, decency and bravery over an unknown future.

Year of Release: 1998

Cast: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore

Director: Steven Spielberg


Joker 2019

Joker (2019)

A failed comedian Arthur Fleck is searching for contact alone among the crowd as he wanders down Gotham City streets. Arthur wears two masks – one he’s painting as a clown for his day, another he’s trying futilely to pretend like he’s in the world around him. Isolated, intimidated and neglected by society, Fleck starts a gradual decline into stupidity, converting it into the criminal intelligence known as the Joker.

Year of Release: 2019

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy

Director: Todd Phillips


Inglorious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds

It is Germany’s first year of French colonization. Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) of the Allied Officer assembles a Jewish military unit to perpetrate brutal revenge against the Nazis, including scalping. He and his men are uniting with the German actress and spy, Bridget von Hammersmark, to pull down the Third Reich representatives. Their fates encounter Shosanna Dreyfus, theater director, who wants to take vengeance on the assassination by the Nazis of her family.

Year of Release: 2009

Cast: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Mélanie Laurent, August Diehl

Director: Quentin Tarantino


Gone Girl

Gone Girl

In Carthage, Mo., Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck), former New York poet, and Amy (Rosamund Pike, his glamourous wife) present the public with a portrait of a happy marriage. However, Nick becomes the main suspect in her death after Amy misses the fifth wedding anniversary of the couple. The ensuing pressure from the police and media causes the impression of a peaceful marriage from Dunnes to crumble and leads to anxious concerns about who Nick and Amy actually are.

Year of Release: 2014

Cast: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon, Kim Dickens

Director: David Fincher


Django Unchained 2012

Django Unchained

A slave, Django (Jamie Foxx), joined two years before the Civil War on a mission to catch Brittle’s brutal brothers by an unorthodox German bounty hunter, named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz frees Django and hunts the most sought after criminals together, when their mission succeeds. On their adventures, Django’s long-lost wife (Kerry Washington) is still a slave to the notorious shady Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Year of Release: 2012

Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson

Director: Quentin Tarantino


La La Land 2016

La La Land

Their mutual desire to do what they enjoy is pulled together by Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone). But as success stones they face choices, which disrupt the delicate fabric of their love affair and they threaten to break the hopes they have fought so long to hang on to each other.

Year of Release: 2016

Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt

Director: Damien Chazelle


The Departed

The Departed

Billy Costigan, a South Boston officer, has a responsibility to penetrate gang head Frank Costello’s organization (Jack Nicholson). With the trust of the Mobster Billy is infiltrating the police department, a criminal of his career named Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) reports to his trade union bosses. Billy and Colin have to figure out each other’s identities to save their lives when both organizations learn that they have a mole among them.

Year of Release: 2006

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Alec Baldwin

Director: Martin Scorsese


Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction

A tendency to philosophical debate is a hitman for Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson). Their story is interlinking in this highly multi-fledged crime movie to those of their boss, gangster Marsellus Wallace, Mia (Uma Thurman) his actress wife, Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) who fought hard; Winston Keitel, the armed makers’ master fixer, Pumpkin, Roth (Tim Roth) and Bunny, and Honey Bunny (Honorable Keitel) (Amanda Plummer).

Year of Release: 1994

Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros, Ving Rhames, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken, Bruce Willis

Director: Quentin Tarantino


Captain Phillips 2016

Captain Phillips

In April 2009, on a day that looks like any other, the U.S. container Maersk Alabama will sail to its destination. Suddenly, pirates in Somalia are racing to the vessel, stepping on and taking everybody hostage. Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks), the captain of the vessel, looks to protect his crew against hostile invaders and their head, Muse (Barkhad Abdi). The pirates are millions of dollars, and Phillips should use his wisdom to keep everyone safe and secure.

Year of Release: 2013

Cast: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener

Director: Paul Greengrass


V for vendetta

V for Vendetta

After the world war, London is the police state of a fascist government and a watchman only known as V (Hugo Weaving) is using terrorist tactics to fight the oppressors in the world where he lives. In his fight to oppress England, V discovers an ally when V saves the secret police from a young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman).

Year of Release: 2005

Cast: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt

Director: James McTeigue


The Revenant

The Revenant

In 1823, the borderman Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) explored the uncharted wilderness and suffered threats to his lives from a brutal bear attack. Glass must utilize its survival skills to find a way home to civilization when a member (Tom Hardy) of his hunting team kills a young son (Forrest Goodluck), and leaves him dead. The legendary fur trapper walks through the snowy ground, saddened and fueled by revocation, to find the man who betrayed him.

Year of Release: 2016

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu


There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood

Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California, a ruthless miner of silver, turned petrol prospector. Plainview’s adopted son HW designs an affordable, family-owned image and sells its valuable property to the local landowners for a pittance. Local preacher Eli Sunday is however suspicious of Plainviews, which leads to a slow-burning feud which threatens their lives.

Year of Release: 2007

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O’Connor, Ciarán Hinds, Dillon Freasier

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson


Birdman or the unexpected virtue of ignorance

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

An exciting Broadway project is being produced former film superhero Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton), who hopes to inject new energy into his staggering career. It’s scary, but he hopes his imaginative playing will reveal that he is not just a washed-in screen star and a true artist. When the opening night arrives, a castmate gets hurt, prompting Riggan to employ an actor (Edward Norton). Meanwhile, his mate, daughter and ex-wife must cope with Riggan.

Year of Release: 2014

Cast: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu


Warrior 2011

Warrior

Unlike the MMA ring, an estranged family seeks reconciliation. An ex-Marine with a traumatic history, Tommy (Tom Hardy) returns home and enlists his dad (Nick Nolte), a recovered alcoholic and former wrestling coach, to prepare him for “Sparta,” the largest MMA tournament ever held. But when Brendan (Joel Edgerton), Tommy’s underdog brother, battles his way through the tournament, the two brothers have to eventually face each other and the forces that have driven them apart.

Year of Release: 2011

Cast: Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy, Jennifer Morrison, Frank Grillo, Nick Nolte

Director: Gavin O’Connor


requiem for a dream

Requiem for a Dream

The film is a parabola of pleasure gloriously discovered and sadly lost, imaginatively evocating the inner landscape of human beings who want to interact, love and feel loved. “Requiem for a Dream” tells parallel tales connected by the sad, widowed Sara Goldfarb’s relationship with her sweet yet aimless son, Harry. The plump Sara has started on a dangerous diet to enrich herself for a national audience with the possibility of featuring on a TV game program.

Year of Release: 2000

Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans

Director: Darren Aronofsky


Manchester by the sea

Manchester by the Sea

Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) was saddened after his older brother Joe’s death by the fact that Joe made him his adolescent nephew Patrick sole guardian. After losing his job as a concessionaire in Boston, Lee returns reluctantly to the fishing village of Manchester-by-Sea in which his working class family has been living for decades. He is forced to contend with a moment when Randi (Michelle Williams) and the culture where he was born and raised split him from his wife.

Year of Release: 2016

Cast: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges

Director: Kenneth Lonergan


Prisoners

Prisoners

When his 6-year-old daughter, Anna and her friend are gone, Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) faces a parent’s worst nightmare of all. The only way is to get an old caravan parked on the driveway. Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal), head of the case, arrests the driver (Paul Dano) but Loki is compelled by a lack of evidence to free the sole suspect. Dover determines that he has no alternative but to take matters into his own hands, believing that his daughter lives on stake.

Year of Release: 2013

Cast: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo, Paul Dano

Director: Denis Villeneuve


The professional

The Professional

The grim side of life, though, is already known to Mathilda (Nataly Portman) just 12 years old; her alcoholic father stocks the pills for crooked police officers, her mother neglecting her. Léon (Jean Reno), who lives down the hall, works for Tony as an employed mobster (Danny Aiello). Mathilda joins forces with a hesitant Léon to learn about his dangerous enterprise and take revenge on death of her family when her family is being attacked by croaky DEA Agent Stansfield (Gary Oldman).

Year of Release: 1994

Cast: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello

Director: Luc Besson


The Truman Show

The Truman Show

In Truman Burbank’s (Jim Carrey’s) life, everything is part of a huge TV package. The Truman Show, a live broadcasting of the entire truman campaign caught in hidden cameras, is performed by executive producer Christof (Ed Harris). Cristof seeks to manipulate Trumans’ mind by withdrawing from the show and replacing Meryl his true love, Sylvia (Natascha McElhone) (Laura Linney). However, when Truman slowly learns the facts, he must consider whether or not to do so.

Year of Release: 1998

Cast: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor, Ed Harris

Director: Peter Weir


One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) believes that the environment will not be punitive as he is moved for treatment from a prison farm to a psychiatric hospital. However the martinet Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) operates the iron fist psychiatric station to keep her patients cowed by violence, drugs, and electro-convulsive care sessions. The battle of will between the defiant McMurphy and the uncompromising Ratched soon affects all the patients in the hospital.

Year of Release: 1975

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson, William Redfield

Director: Miloš Forman


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Taxi Driver 1976

Taxi Driver

Touched by insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) takes his job as a New York cabbage, hovers on the streets at night, getting more and more disconnected from the reality as the cleanser dreams. When Travis encounters Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a pretty campaign man, he is obsessed with saving the world, first plotting to kill a presidential runner and then working on rescue Iris, a 12-year-old prostitute (Jodie Foster).

Year of Release: 1976

Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, Cybill Shepherd

Director: Martin Scorsese


Narcos Netflix

Narcos (2015-2017)

SERIES | NETFLIX

Netflix unravels Colombia’s rise in the trade in cocaine and the interesting real-life stories by late 1980’s drug kingpins. The law enforcement steps taken during the drug war, targeting well known and strong personalities, including drug lord Pablo Escobar, are also detailed. As cocaine, one of the most expensive resources on earth, is regulated by a vast range of parties involved – legal, political, police, military and civil.

Cast: Pedro Pascal, Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook

Creators: Carlo Bernard, Chris Brancato, Doug Miro


Whiplash

Whiplash

An energetic jazz drummer, Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller), following his ascent to the top of the Conservatory of Elite Music. Terence Fletcher (J. K. Simmons) discovers Andrew and transfers his aspired drummer into a jazz band, which is famed for his frightening coaching techniques. He transforms the life of the young man forever. Yet Andrew has soon become consumed with his passion for perfection as his ruthless trainer drives him to the limits with his abilities and cleverness.

Year of Release: 2014

Cast: Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, Paul Reiser

Director: Damien Chazelle


Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

SERIES | HBO MAX

A song of Ice and Fire is George R.R. Martin’s best selling book series, while HBO is sunk its important storied teeth into the Epic of medieval fantasy. This is a representation of a dangerous game in order that the seven Kingdoms of Westeros can be governed and sit upon the Throne of Iron, portraying two strong families—kings and kingdoms, renegades, citizens, liars and truthful men. Martin is accredited as co-producer and a blogger, including Northern Ireland, Malta, Croatia and Spain, for the series.

Cast: See full list

Creators: David Benioff, D. B. Weiss


Oldboy

Oldboy

Dae-a Su’s filthy alcoholic saved by a friend from the police station. However, he is snatched from the street and waked up in a jail where he lives for the next 15 years with the opioid unaware, if human touch is inevitable. And then, freed unexpectedly, he is called in to hunt down his jailer in an impressive denouement.

Year of Release: 2005

Cast: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley, Samuel L. Jackson

Director: Park Chan-wook


The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist,” Kint (Kevin Spacey) says, drawing a parallel with Keyser Soze, the most mysterious crime ever to have. Kint is attempting to reassure the feds that not only does the legendary lord of crime exist, but also has the duty to draw Kint and his four friends into an eruption in the harbor of San Pedro, with few survivors left.

Year of Release: 1995

Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite, Kevin Spacey, Suzy Amis, Benicio del Toro, Giancarlo Esposito

Director: Bryan Singer


American Psycho

A rich investment banker in New York City, Patrick Bateman, hides from his collaborators and associates his psychopathic alternative ego as he delves deeper into his brutal, hedonistic delusions.

Year of Release: 2000

Cast: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas

Directors: Mary Harron, Morgan J. Freeman


American History X

American History X

Neo-Nazi Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) eventually went to jail after murdering two Black teenagers who attempted to take his truck. He led a life characterized by abuse and bigotry. After his release, Derek decided to change his approach; he was trying to save him from following in his footsteps his younger brother Danny (Edward Furlong), who idolized Derek. Watching her mother becoming more ill, Derek asks how her daughter can resolve a life of hatred. As she deals with his own intensely innate biases.

Year of Release: 1998

Cast: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Fairuza Balk, Stacy Keach, Elliott Gould, Avery Brooks, Beverly D’Angelo

Director: Tony Kaye


Hannibal

Hannibal (2013-2015)

SERIES | NETFLIX

Gifted profiler Will Graham has a special mental ability which makes him to feel like anyone, psychopaths included. However, though assisted by the FBI, he wanted to use some support to invite genius doctor Hannibal Lecter. He was especially difficult to do. Both form a relationship and they don’t appear to catch together any villain, but Lecter bears a dark secret. The dark side of his own bright imagination, and he has more in common than will might possibly believe with the criminals they chase.

Cast: See full list

Creator: Bryan Fuller


Dexter

Dexter (2006-2013)

SERIES | HULU

Dexter Morgan is a blood splatter specialist based in Miami, not just investigating killings but also commiting them. In reality he’s a serial murderer — but he just kills him, because his lifestyle decisions make him feel justified. His sister in the law department and his officers have no clue that Dexter leads a double life; but his father in adoption, Harry, knows his secret and encourages Dexter in reality to improve his “skills.”

Cast: Michael C. Hall, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter, Erik King, Lauren Velez, David Zayas, James Remar, C. S. Lee, Desmond Harrington, Geoff Pierson, Aimee Garcia, Yvonne Strahovski

Creator: James Manos Jr.


Lost

Lost (2004-2010)

SERIES | Watch Free

On a green, enigmatic island the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 had dropped 1 000 kilometers off track. Everyone has surprising secrets, but on the island itself they have nothing which contains a monstrous security system, a number of underground bunkers and a group of violent survivors who are hiding in the shadows.

Cast: See full list

Creators: J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Lieber, Damon Lindelof


Lost in Space Netflix

Lost in Space (2018-2021)

SERIES | NETFLIX

The rest of the Robinson clan should check out risk too, because they face hard times. The future is 30 years and a new life in a colony of spaces has been selected for the family. The Robinson’s ship is cast away suddenly and thrown in a hostile alien atmosphere on the way to a better planet they say. They must create new relationships and work together to live now, light-years from their original destination. Dr. Smith and unintentionally friendly Don West, both strangers who are brought together by situations and a shared craziness to failure, are disturbingly charismatic. “Danger, Will Robinson!”

Cast: Molly Parker, Toby Stephens, Maxwell Jenkins, Taylor Russell, Mina Sundwall, Ignacio Serricchio, Parker Posey, Brian Steele

Creators: Irwin Allen, Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless


Prison Break

Prison Break (2005-2017)

SERIES | HULU

The desperate man in a bleak condition is Michael Scofield. His pal, Lincoln Burrows, was arrested and put on the Death Row in a crime he didn’t commit. Michael keeps a bank in Fox River State Penitentiary to detain himself with his brother; he begins a series of ambitious schemes to crack Lincoln’s prison and show his innocence. When they get out of prison, their risks are not over—the brothers must run to avoid rehab and tackle a dynamic political complot that jeopardizes everyone’s existence.

Cast: See full list

Creator: Paul T. Scheuring


Sacred Games

Sacred Games (2018-2019)

SERIES | NETFLIX

As Sartaj Singh receives an anonymous advise on the whereabouts of Ganesh Gaitonde, a fugitive overlord, he embarks on a chase through Mumbai, which is a dangerous game of cat and mouse. During the anarchy, trappings are unveiled in a corrupted underworld. Singh starts his own investigation as he struggles to save Mumbai from imminent destruction, after being excluded from the Gaitonde case. Flashbacks expose some of the abuses perpetrated over the years by Gaitonde.

Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, Pankaj Tripathi, Kalki Koechlin, Ranvir Shorey

Creators: Vikramaditya Motwane, Anurag Kashyap


We are concluding here. We wanted to continue though, because there are so many masterpieces though out the history of cinema. We want to include Titanic, Jurassic Park film series, Black Mirror TV show, Friends, The Big Bang Theory, Blood Diamond, The Sixth Sense and many more.

Please write down the names of movies and TV shows in the comments section that you wanted to see in this list and we will include them.

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